You see, Mandell claimed his past misdeeds were the result of his prior history as a drug abuser.

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As with Rush Limbaugh, his supporters don't seem to care that he is an alcoholic and a former drug abuser. (See Rose's Glenn Beck Inc.).

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Rivera said that the late Steve Howe, the former drug abuser turned evangelical Christian, was a huge influence on his early career, keeping the young Rivera in line when he would start to fall into bad habits.

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While the sisters have abandoned the legal fight, their lawyer made some nasty (and, as far as the record shows, unfounded) accusations in the London court: that Alvaro bribed an Ecuadorian judge and that Alvaro's tactics hastened their father's death, as well as the death of his fourth sister, Maria Leonor , a drug abuser who lay in a coma for eight years.

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